With principles such as ". save and respect the raw material " and ".promote and valorise a better usage of species" Rougier claims to be a responsible actor in its use of resources. The company's home page is decorated with phrases like: " Full of this love for wood, ROUGIER participates today in the different professions of the wood industry and to the economic and social development of the countries where its subsidiaries are located ".(1) ROUGIER is member of the "European Foundation for the preservation of the African forest resource" which "promotes sustainable forestry development" and "engage in the application and promotion of a Code of Conduct" which "respond in a very concrete manner to the concerns of sustainable forest management, and also to the problems of illegality and bad governance"(2). ROUGIER is also member of the " International Technical Tropical Timber Association" (ATIBT) a non-political NGO which promotes "sustainable management of the tropical forest resource(3)" and "the necessary balance between ecology and economy that is otherwise known as harmonious and sustainable development." "The problems of deforestation, illegal logging and bad governance" are presented as being "at the heart" of their preoccupations(4).(5) ____________________ 1. http://www.rougier.fr/gb/rougier.htm, 2004-11-29
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